The Last Earth - A Palestinian Story
P R E S S R E L E A S E
An evocative of modern Palestine, told through the stories of the people who have survived the conflict.
The Last Earth
A Palestinian Story
by Ramzy Baroud. Foreword by Ilan Pappe
Paperback | 20th February 2018 | 9780745337999 | 288pp | £14.99
'In the finest tradition of people’s history, these sensitive, painful and evocative pieces provide a human face to the
painful saga of Palestinian torment and the remarkable courage and resilience of the victims' - Noam Chomsky
'Engaging, unforgettable, complex and unique. The Last Earth provides a unique way of tackling the problem of writing history. Reading it is like walking around a gallery of old
master paintings, each telling its own harrowing and often beautiful story about the same episode in human history' - Baroness Jenny Tonge
Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective
identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it.
Ordinary Palestinians have rarely narrated their own history. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed author Ramzy Baroud
draws on dozens of interviews to produce vivid, intimate and beautifully written accounts of Palestinian lives - in
villages, refugee camps, prisons and cities, in the lands of their ancestors and in exile. Baroud's empathetic and
lyrical approach reveals new human dimensions of the Palestinian saga, telling it as it has never before been told.
Against dominant narratives, the last earth reclaims Palestine's past - and present - for all its people.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, media consultant, author and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea
Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story (Pluto, 2009), and The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto, 2018), among others books. He has a PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter.